By mid-March, some softly radiant perennials will be emerging from the
chilly mud (or snow), and Ithaca will be similarly warmed by the singing
of perennial friend Priscilla Herdman.

In over 30 years of performing and recording, from her 1977 debut,
Water Lily, to her 2008 album, Into the Stars, she
has won a devoted audience. Priscilla Herdman is known for having the
richest female voice on the folk circuit: limpid and spell-binding.
Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe calls it, "...miraculously pure and
effortlessly beautiful, a voice that immediately draws people in."
Other critics have lauded it as, "elegant, pitch-perfect," "opulent,"
"spiritually luminescent," and "enrapturing." Sing Out!
compares her vocal quality to that of a fine mature wine that
intoxicates deeply.

Priscilla Herdman puts her remarkable voice to use interpreting
first-rate, wide-ranging material, from Australian outback poetry to
Dr. Seuss, from traditional British and Appalachian Child ballads to
gritty, funny Utah Phillips and Cheryl Wheeler, from insightful,
contemporary "issue" songs to sweet lullabies and love songs, many
original. She has an unerring ability to find lasting, wonderful songs
and a chameleon's skill at fitting herself to them perfectly, giving
them graceful, powerful expression. She chooses, "Significant material
from the finest writers (including herself), and makes [it] even more
special through her performance:...good songs sung right," declares
Sing Out!

For 17 years, Herdman joined with Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen as
The Trio; their remarkable harmonies, high spirits, and
diverse material made them the most-requested performers for the
Cornell Folk Song Society. In addition to her many solo and group
recordings, Priscilla has made three remarkable family albums, which
have received Parents' Choice Classic and Gold Awards, and have been
named by the American Library Association as Notable Children's
Recordings.

Priscilla Herdman has excellent taste, as well, in the musical company she
keeps, being joined on stage, in the studio, and in friendship over the
years by the likes of Abby Newton, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Artie and
Happy Traum, Guy Van Duser and Billy Novick, Scott Petito, Bill Staines,
and the aforementioned Hills and Mangsen. On this current tour, she'll be
joined by a fine accompanist, Max Cohen, on guitar, who appears on her two
most recent recordings. It's been nearly four years since Priscilla
Herdman last graced Ithaca. Please join her, and Max Cohen, for an evening
of heartfelt music: silly, sad, and passionate. You will be moved.

Tickets are available at
Ludgate Farm Market,
Ithaca Guitar Works,
Greenstar Co-op,
Bound for Glory,
and at the door.
You may also order tickets
online
and by mail: SASE to CFSC, PO Box 481, Ithaca, NY 14851.